It’s no secret that the landscape for recruiting has changed dramatically with the rise of social media. In the early stages, recruiters felt they were ‘recruiting’ on social media by simply posting a status update that they were hiring. Then, many social media platforms began selling job postings and targeted display ads. LinkedIn has always sold expanded access to members and their profiles. To further complicate matters, some social sites are now aggregating job listings (similar to Indeed’s model).

Now, aggregator sites like Indeed or Glassdoor, who used to scrape jobs from many job boards and employer sites, are no longer pulling in ‘every’ job to their database. They have moved to a model of aggregating less and selling more direct job listings. The impact is that the best place for a job seeker to find ALL job postings is unclear, and the ability for a hiring company to broadcast a job opening across multi platforms (for free) is no longer guaranteed.Read this article...